Download or read book The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn No one can fail to observe, in reading our Lord's discourses, how unlike a king or great person he carried himself upon earth; how he loved to bring home his heavenly nature to his disciples and friends by all the figures and symbols which belonged to domestic life. That which belonged to us - whatever was human - he selected as a garment, and clothed himself with it. He was parent, brother, friends. He was for the hungry, bread; and for the thirsty, water. He was the light - a star sometimes, and a candle at other times. He was a vine. He was a husbandman. He was a shepherd. He was a merchant, a rich proprietor, a householder. Almost every element of use, in one way or another, he attaches to himself, either as a title, or by some parable. Into this peculiar method of representation, no one of his apostles entered with such fullness of sympathy and such richness, as Paul. It would be interesting, if we had time, to run through the variations which Paul produced on this theme. For I think it can be shown that in his hands there is scarcely one great elemental law, hardly a familiar phenomenon, in the world, which, in the Gospels and in the Epistles conjointly, is not associated tenderly with the name of Jesus Christ. Our text is a very striking instance under this head. Bold as Hebrews were on matters where we are exceedingly sensitive, it is yet without offence that Paul represents himself as a mother, without saying so. He Says: "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again." They were carried in his soul, yet unborn. In another place he says: "Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel." Kindled with this imagery, his mind shot along the figure, and took another form of it, without note or warning; and he says that Christ was being carried in them, as it were, a babe unborn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.